Jem Cohen Movies
- 1986
At Close Range
At Close Range6.91986HD
Brad Whitewood Jr. lives in rural Pennsylvania and has few prospects. Against his mother's wishes, he seeks out his estranged father, the head of a...
- 1987
Matewan
Matewan7.31987HD
Filmed in the coal country of West Virginia, "Matewan" celebrates labor organizing in the context of a 1920s work stoppage. Union organizer, Joe...
- 2000
Benjamin Smoke
Benjamin Smoke4.22000HD
Benjamin Smoke is the highly acclaimed documentary by directors Jem Cohen and Peter Sillen on legendary underground musician Benjamin Smoke. Benjamin...
- 1999
Instrument
Instrument6.81999HD
The band Fugazi is documented over a period of more than ten years (1987-1998) through performance footage and interviews with the band and their...
- 2012
Museum Hours
Museum Hours6.92012HD
A security guard working at an art museum in Vienna crosses paths with a Canadian woman in town to visit her ailing cousin.
- 2014
The Film That Buys the Cinema
The Film That Buys the Cinema02014HD
A collection of films from an eclectic array of contributors commissioned to raise funds for the Bristol independent cinema The Cube.
- 2016
World Without End (No Reported Incidents)
World Without End (No Reported Incidents)52016HD
A portrait of Southend-on-Sea, a town along England's Thames estuary, that includes everyday streets, people, birds, water, mud and sky.
- 2004
Chain
Chain6.42004HD
In Chain, actual malls, theme parks, hotels and corporate centers worldwide are joined into a monolithic superlandscape that shapes and circumscribes...
- 1997
Lucky Three: An Elliott Smith Portrait
Lucky Three: An Elliott Smith Portrait71997HD
Described as "a cross between a video and a documentary, but actually being neither of the two," singer/songwriter Elliott Smith plays three acoustic...
- 2015
Counting
Counting7.72015HD
An associative collection of visual impressions across fifteen chapters: a seagull in Porto, political posters in New York, an abstract painting in...
- 2009
Chinatown Film Project
Chinatown Film Project02009HD
Chinatown is an evocative place. It exists in our cities, in our imaginations, on our television screens, and in our memories. It is at once a...
- 1991
Drink Deep
Drink Deep6.31991HD
Drink Deep is a lyrical vision of friendship, hidden secrets, and desires. Cohen uses several types of film image to add texture to the layered...
- 1999
Amber City
Amber City61999HD
A portrait of an unnamed city in Italy. Sidestepping the tourist attractions that make the city famous, the film/video posits an almost-imaginary...
- 2006
Blessed Are the Dreams of Men
Blessed Are the Dreams of Men02006HD
Moving towards an unknown destination, a group of anonymous passengers float through an unidentified landscape
- 2008
Evening's Civil Twilight in Empires of Tin
Evening's Civil Twilight in Empires of Tin02008HD
This surreal art-movie/live-performance hybrid is comprised of New York filmmaker Jem Cohen's original 16mm and DV movie footage combined with...
- 2009
Le bled (Buildings in a Field)
Le bled (Buildings in a Field)02009HD
A collaboration between Jem Cohen with writer Luc Sante made in Tangier, Morocco, a city where neither of us had ever been. En route from the airport...
- 1996
Lost Book Found
Lost Book Found61996HD
The result of over five years of Super-8 and 16mm filming on New York City streets, Lost Book Found melds documentary and narrative into a complex...
- 2024
Little, Big, and Far
Little, Big, and Far02024HD
Jem Cohen brings the same meditative elegance and intellectual curiosity he did to Museum Hours (2012) with his stargazing new feature, again using...
- 2018
NYC Weights and Measures
NYC Weights and Measures02018HD
"Like a floating, drifting piece of ticker tape, the film makes its way across boroughs and time to explore New York City's many moods, from loud and...
- 1992
Black Hole Radio
Black Hole Radio01992HD
Black Hole Radio is an installation that consists of taped confessions of callers of the New York City Phone Confession Line and video images. The...